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  Explain what you think the phrase "mankind's essential illness" means to Simon in "Lord of the Flies," chapter 5.

  Posted by shepherdemily on Oct 7, 2009 at 05:37 PM

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  In chapter 12, what is the significance of Sam's statement "Roger sharpened a stick at both ends"?

  Posted by apokolypz on Aug 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM

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  What do you think this quote is saying" "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away…”

  Posted by joslynnlsxc on Jul 20, 2009 at 12:02 PM

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  What is the meaning of a significant quote within Chapters 5-8 of Lord of the Flies?

  Posted by lucshe on Apr 26, 2009 at 01:29 PM

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  In Chapter 1 of "Lord of the Flies", how does this sentence express Jack's thoughts: "next time there would be no mercy"?

  Posted by mermaid1210 on Mar 29, 2009 at 08:38 AM

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  What does Simon mean, when he tells Ralph. “You will get back where you came from"?

  Posted by doger1 on Feb 9, 2009 at 01:32 PM

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  What does Golding mean by "the throb and stamp of a single organism" in "Lord of the Flies"?

  Posted by tyfyh on Nov 24, 2008 at 09:05 PM

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  In chapter 3 of "Lord of The Flies how does this quote end "While i...."

  Posted by themightyboosh on Nov 3, 2008 at 06:56 PM

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  What is the irony of Ralph saying to himself "You'll get back" in Chapter 12? Compare it to when Simon says it in Chapter 7.

  Posted by esperanzadc on Oct 28, 2008 at 06:28 PM

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  In "Lord of the Flies", why does the pig's skull know "add the answers and won't tell" for Ralph?

  Posted by deluxe92 on Oct 27, 2008 at 04:40 PM

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  Golding writes in "Lord of the Flies": "The choir, noticeably less of a group, had discarded their cloaks." What does this mean?

  Posted by washrose1 on Oct 17, 2008 at 06:54 PM

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  At the end of Chapter Eight of "Lord of the Flies", the author tells us Simon has "One of his times". What does this mean?

  Posted by michelle-telford on Oct 7, 2008 at 06:55 PM

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  What is the significance of Sam's statement in "Lord of the Flies": "Roger sharpened a stick at both ends."

  Posted by rdz on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:08 PM

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  "Ralph shot forward, burst the thicket, was in the open screaming, snarling, bloody." What do screaming, snarling, bloody suggest?

  Posted by tonylee on Jul 9, 2008 at 07:35 AM

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  Jack says,"after all, we're not savages. We're English; and the English are best at everything.So we've got to do the right things."

  Posted by tonylee on Jul 3, 2008 at 02:59 AM

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  "Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness" What does this mean? What is the "illness"?

  Posted by tink10 on Apr 3, 2008 at 12:45 PM

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  "If faces were different when lit from above or below-what was a face? What was anything?" What does this mean, what is Ralph questioning?

  Posted by tink10 on Apr 2, 2008 at 12:39 PM